"Eric Gill" wrote in message
"Branko Vukelic" wrote in
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No – my bad. Thought I’d clicked on the ATI group. Sorry. REalized it only after I sent the message.
Right… I thought so. Well, I think I should visit the group nevertheless. Thanks for the reminder. 😉
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Sure. And some 3D programs take advantage of it (most good ones, in fact). But not PS.
Hmm, I have a Serbian May issue of PC Magazine (it’s only a translation of the original, I suppose). It says PS uses shader technology and they give an example (blur filter)… Damn the big mags. They’d do just about anything to make you buy the newest hardware, wouldn’t they! Thanks for the tip Eric.
I’ve decided to go for 9600XT. Since I’ve already made the order, there’s no going back now. It can’t be bad, right?
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Next generation replacement for PCI and AGP. Even the first release is godwafully faster than present PCI and AGP.
So say the graphs I’ve seen. But usually it takes a while until software makers take full advantage of newest and meanest hardware. Well, at least that’s the way I see it. I think I’ll upgrade only when it becomes a standard.
Athlon 64? Hmmm… That could mean a six to twelve month wait since there are not many apps that support 64-bit CPUs.
All of them do, in 32-bit mode. The Athlon 64 and it’s more expensive brothers (Opteron and FX) just happen to be very good at running 32-bit code, and have gobs more memory bandwidth as well.
Plus, the Athlon64 has the SSE2 instruction set, which *IS* used by Photoshop. Previous Athlons just had the original SSE.
You mean A64 has SSE3 and AXP have SSE2, right? I’ve read about it, and was pretty dissappointed to find A64 completely out of my reach… Besides I’d feel a bit bad about running a 32-bit app on a 64-bit CPU that’s twice or three times more expensive than a decent 32-bit CPU.
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I’ve done some price/performance math and came up with this:
The best I could get with my budget is an
Athlon XP 2500+,
ASUS MB (not sure which make, but it’s nForce 2),
ATI Radeon 9600XT,
512Mb RAM (it’s expensive, so I’ll wait a bit and then go for 1Gb later), 2x80Gb SATA HDDs at 7200rpm (I think it’s gonna be Seagate or something), DVD/CD RW,
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the standard accessories all and an Epson 4870 scanner.
Well, I’ve been working with Celleron 1GHz with 256Mb RAM up until now and I think I’m not gonna miss it. 🙂
Thanks for the info, everyone!